Day: May 24, 2021

KARACHI: Administrator Laeeq Ahmed on Monday said that KMC’s budget for the next financial year would be based on facts and would focus on city development and provision of facilities.

 

“Development works would be given priority while unnecessary expenditures would be decreased. Sindh government has been requested to pay pension and retirement dues to the employees,” the administrator expressed while addressing a meeting with officials of the finance department.

 

On the occasion, Finance Advisor Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto, Senior Director Coordination Khalid Khan, Director Finance and Accounts Rashid Nizam, Senior Director Media Management Ali Hassan Sajid, Director Budget Nasir Mahmood, Director Welfare Mahmood Baig, Director Finance Wasi Usmani and other officials were also present.

 

Ahmed urged the officers that the budget for the next financial year should be realistic with more focus on providing basic amenities to the citizens. “Issues of KMC should not stand in the way of better payment of local government facilities. As far as possible a strategy should be adopted to solve the financial and administrative matters of the employees in a better and more transparent manner,” he added.

 

He said that every effort was being made to ensure timely payment of salaries and pensions to the employees so that the administrative budget should not be spent on any other period under any circumstances.

 

The administrator said that balance between development and non-development expenditures would be maintained in the budget of next financial year. “Non-development expenditure will be further reduced as compared to previous years and available resources will be spent on improving the city. Every effort will be made to complete the works undertaken under the development program in a timely manner,” he said,

 

He added that budget documents should be finalized and budget recommendations and estimates be finalized in full coordination with all departments of KMC. He said that the provision of basic local government services to the citizens could be made possible only by adopting a better and comprehensive financial and administrative strategy. To provide maximum facilities as much as possible, he said that finance officers should formulate correct policies keeping in view their experience which would improve the performance of the institution and reduce the problems. “The financial sector is the backbone of any institution so it has to play its due role,” Ahmed added.

KARACHI: Vaccination centers have been set up at 232 places across Sindh. The provincial government wants everyone to be vaccinated.

 

A vaccination center has been set up at Sindh High Court Bar, Malir Bar. In addition to public hospitals, private hospitals also have vaccination facilities. Jinnah Hospital, Civil Hospital has space for patients.

 

“There was not a single bed in Sindh Institute of Infectious Diseases, only two beds were vacant in HDU. Not a single bed is vacant in Liaquat National Hospital and SIUT, said Spokesperson for Sindh Government and Advisor for Law, Environment and Coastal Development Barrister Murtaza Wahab while addressing a press conference at Media Corner of Sindh Assembly Building here today. We have to follow the SOPs and wear masks. Moreover, the citizens have to be vaccinated; otherwise the situation could get worse like in India.

 

He said: “People are moving around as usual.” We are sorry that people do business by dropping the shutters of shops. There is nothing more than human life. “Not every MPA is allowed to come in the Sindh Assembly. The assembly is being run with only 30% attendance. A few days’ sacrifice is better than a day’s sacrifice.

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said Monday that the ‘selected’ Prime Minister Imran Khan, by using 1998 census figures to calculate GDP, has tried once again to lie to and mislead the nation.

 

“This blatantly unacceptable fraud by the PM and his government shows the level of dishonesty that defines the PTI and its tenure in power. The selected PM is making all efforts to hide behind this web of lies to exculpate himself of all responsibility of the economic catastrophe he has overseen,” he said in a statement. The PPP chairman said that the country’s ruined economy would need a lot more than ridiculous policies like promoting domestic poultry, and from selling off the Prime Minister houses cows and cars.

 

The ‘selected’ PM had, in his manifesto, committed to revolutionizing the economy of the country in just 90 days, but 1011 days later that promise is worth less than the paper it was printed on, he said. Instead, we see the economy of the country is in constant decline, he added.

 

Bilawal added that the imposed and ‘incompetent selected PM’ had failed to fulfill any of his campaign promises. “The import bill of agricultural has seen an increase of up to 53 percent, a damning indictment of the government’s economic policies. “The selected PM pretended to be honest and sold himself as a man who would never be bought. That facade lies shattered as he has overseen the greatest economic collapse Pakistan has ever seen, as his cronies both in and out of Parliament loot and plunder the national exchequer,” the PPP chairman observed.

 

He warned that the country would continue to underperform as long as the mandate of the people was stolen, and incompetent governments like Imran Khan’s were propped up to serve the vested interests of a select group of people. The country can no longer afford to have the mandate of the people trampled upon, and the illegitimate Prime Minister must go home for this country to move forward.

 

He demanded Imran Khan tender an unconditional apology to the people of Pakistan for pushing them to the brink of disaster, and resign to spare the country from further destruction.